Skate.



M. B. REACH. SKATE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 12. 1913.

lylgtgjb Patented Jan. 5, 1915.

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MILTON B. REACH, OF OIIIGOPEE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO A. G. SEALDING 86 BROS. MANFG. 00., OF CHICOLPEE, MASSACHUSETTS.

SKATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 5, 1915..

Application filed July 12, 1913. Serial No. 778,806.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MILTON B. REACH, citizen of the United States, residing at Chicopee, Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skates, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the clamping means for skates, and other features of construction concerning the attachment of the runner post to the heel plate.

The invention consists in the features and combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and particularly defined by the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is'a plan view of the heel of a skate embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a skate embodying my invention; Fig. 3 is a rear view; Fig. at is a view on the line 44 of Fig. 2 looking in the direction of the arrow; Fig. 5 is a view of the rear part of the skate runner and its rear post; Fig. 6 is a front view of one of the clamps; Fig. 7 is a side view of one of the clamps; Fig. 8 is a side view of the rear portion of a skate showing a modification in which the heel clamps, instead of being offset to the rear of the adjusting screw, are offset toward the front in relation to said adjusting screw.

In these drawings, 1 is the runner, 2 the sole plate, and 3 the heel plate. The heel clamps are of special construction, one of my objects here being to provide a form of clamp which will enable me to utilize the runner post as a means for holding the adjusting screw. This adjusting screw is shown at 13 passing through a notch or opening in the runner post, that is to say, its central reduced portion 14 engages said notch so that the screw is held centrally against traveling in either direction, and is permitted to turn.

The threads of the screw engage downwardly extending ears 15 of the clamping members 16, these cars in the form shown in Fig. 2 extending rearwardly and upwardly, and being connected with the-main portions of the clamps at their upper ends. These main clamp portions slide in guideways formed by bending down portions 17 and 18 from the heel plate.

The upstanding ears of the heel clamps extend forwardly in the form shown in Fig.

2, and have points at 19 to engage the heel of the shoe. This forward incline of the clamps enables the guides, therefore, to be located in the position shown relatively to the post of the runner, and the inclined direction of the downwardly extending ears 15 enable the adjusting screw to be mounted in the post without providing any additional holder or support for the screw such as is ordinarily employed.

The runner, at its upper end, is riveted to the heel plate, it having a projection at 20 for this purpose. The runner and heel plate are also supported in proper relation to each other by brackets 21 riveted to the runner and heel plate respectively, and also by arms 22 formed integrally with the heel plate and inclining downwardly toward each other to fit against opposite sides of the runner post, thus forming braces to sustain the runner and heel plate in proper relation to each other. The clamping points 19 are directly over the center of the screw 13.

In Fig. 8 a modification of the invention is shown in respect to the heel clamps, these being off-set to the front of the adjusting screw instead of to the rear. In this form the upstanding clamping cars 23 incline rearwardly, and this is true also of the downwardly extending ears 24: which are engaged by the adjusting screw. This screw, as in the form first described, has a central portion engaging a notch or opening in the runner post 25. The clamps are guided by a portion 26 formed integrally with the heel plate, and by turning the front edge of the heel plate at 27 downwardly and thence rearwardly to form a guideway.

I claim as my invention 1. In combination with the heel plate, a post connected thereto and to the runner, clamps having portions guided on the heel plate and ofi-set to one side of the post, an adjusting screw mounted in the post, said clamps having inclined portions engaging the adjusting screw and inclined clamping ears reaching above the heel plate, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a heel plate, a post connected thereto and to the runner, guide portions for the heel clamps formed integrally with and turned down from the heel plate, clamps sliding in said guide portions, an adjusting screw mounted in the post, and ears extending from the clamping members to be engaged by the adjusting gaged by the adjusting screw, substantially screw, substantially as described. v as described.

3. In combination the heel plate, a post 5. In combination with the heel plate and connected thereto and to the runner, and post, an adjusting screw mounted in the braces formed of integral extensions of the post, clamps having rearwardly inclined up- 3) front of the heel plate and extending down per clamping portions, the front edge of the therefrom and 'CIMISVGISQI'V of the post, and heel plate being turned downwardly and with their edges lying on each side of the rearwardly to form a guide for the clamps, post, substantially as described. substantially as described.

4. In combination with the heel plate and In testimony whereof, I al'iix my signature :3

post, an adjusting screw mounted in the in presence of two witnesses.

post, clamps guided on the heel plate in rear MILTON B. REACH. of the post, said clamps having forwardly IVitnesses: inclined upper members to engage the heel M. JAMESON,

and forwardly inclined lower members en- A. P. HORNE.

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